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A new report shows that going green is gaining steam among homebuilders around the country. The Green and Multifamily and Single Family Homes 2017 SmartMarket Brief shows that at least one-third of homebuilders said that green building makes up
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City living is a trend that appears to be here to stay as more people decide they want to keep city living as they age. Recently, the 2017 Aging in Cities Survey was released which involved 3,000 residents of 10 large
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GOP leaders revealed an outlined for comprehensive tax reform on Wednesday. However, the National Association of Realtors believes the plan will lead to a tax on homeownership for millions. The new tax reform changes the current tax code to
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As the largest generation of homebuyers, millennials are transforming the housing market and the way the process goes, according to a new report, Zillow Group Report on Consumer Housing Trends 2017. In previous generations, buyers used to search until
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NRT, the nation’s largest residential real estate brokerage company, announced today the launch of ON Collaborative by Coldwell Banker Real Estate Services, LLC. Doing business as ON Collaborative, this will be a new full-service development marketing firm integrated with
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Two new reports highlight the U.S. residential real estate market’s continuing balancing act. First, the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price NSA Index showed that home prices are on the rise around the country, up 5.9 percent in
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While Hurricane Harvey affected homeowners throughout Houston, certain neighborhoods saw significantly more flood damage. The Kinder Institute identified the 10 neighborhoods with the most flooded homes according to estimates based on FEMA data. It also estimated the number of
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Though thermometers in the Midwest and East are displaying temperatures typically seen in the dead of summer, calendars show that 2018 is not-so-slowly creeping up on us. And while the 2017 residential real estate market has been a mixed
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Black homeowners were hardest hit by the 2007 recession and have not been able to recover as quickly as most other homeowners. However, according to a new report from the National Association of Real Estate Brokers (NAREB), black homeownership
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Recent news about the residential real estate market has painted a pretty bleak picture — one of dwindling options, driving sales down and increasing competition. However, a recent survey from the National Association of Realtors shows that consumers are
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While agents around the country look forward to spring homebuying season every year, there’s one major annoyance for buyers: Other buyers. To circumvent that competition, Trulia suggests that first-time homebuyers on the market for a starter home start their
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Nationwide, non-conventional forms of financing accounted for less than a third of the new single-family home market for the first time since 2008, according to the National Association of Home Builders’ analysis of the 2016 Census Bureau Survey of
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Low inventory continued to vex the housing market and caused existing-home sales to drop 1.7 percent to 5.35 million in August from July, marking the fourth month of declines out of five, according to the National Association of Realtors.
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The fertility rate in the U.S. is at its lowest since records on that data began in 1909 and the housing market is seeing the affects, according to a recent report from The Denver Post. Last year, the birthrate
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After hurricanes rocked the South and Southeast in the past month, builder confidence dipped due to the storms’ impact on labor and materials. The Housing Market Index from the National Association of Home Builders and Wells Fargo shows confidence
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Less homes are being flipped, for less of a profit, and for those who do, the cost is the most expensive it’s been in nearly 10 years, according to a new report from ATTOM Data Solutions. Flipping trend on